United Airline guy stirring more outrage than school shooting yesterday.

[Cattledog]

The guy was wronged big time but what the hell is wrong with our culture that gun deaths are now acceptable?

[cwydro]

1. Same right here on DU.

Posters seem to be much more upset about the United fiasco.

[Demsrule86]

2. They are not acceptable and there was a thread.

It was a murder suicide...and as of last night no details released. I posted on that thread as I always do about how there are too many guns...the right is whining about it being a gun free zone...saw it on various websites.

[HAB911]

5. the right is whining about it being a gun free zone

There are DU members that argue the same, if you haven't noticed

[steve2470]

3. they aren't acceptable but....

absolutely nothing is going to change in this country. Nothing. For now anyway. At least something can be done about the poor guy who got brutalized on that flight: protest, boycott, and support that poor guy in his quest for compensation and a real apology.

[AngryAmish]

4. Our nation is run by frequent flyers.

The people who count in our country identify more with the doctor than some teacher in an unfashionable part of California.

[grossproffit]

6. What about Chechnya where they're rounding up and killing gay people?

http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21720298-ramzan-kadyrovs-security-forces-are-allegedly-torturing-suspected-homosexuals-secret?fsrc=scn/tw/te/rfd/pe

[treestar]

8. +1

That ought to be first - terrifying.

[Foamfollower]

7. Because people can actually do something about United by spreading the word and refusing to fly

The NRA and the GOP Congress has made sure we can't do a damned thing about the crazy guy down the street with an armory that's bigger than the local police department's, sheriff department's, and national guard unit's armories combined.

[LeftInTX]

15. Thread winner

Everyone can relate to bad flying experiences.
There is a solution to this.
United screwed up. Allowed customers to board, then bumped them. Brought in security. (I read that if a passenger was adamant about not being bumped, they should have simply gone to the next name on the list)
Bad PR afterword.

[exboyfil]

9. A judge was also gunned down in Chicago

on Monday morning as well.

[HAB911]

10. All I want is to hear one gun fanatic admit

All I want is to hear one gun fanatic admit they love the right to own guns more than they love children going to school without being shot.

Link to tweet

[DFW]

11. I'll bet that in private, many of them do admit it n/t

[HAB911]

12. They obviously don't care, all they are worried about

is open carry w/o permit and SILENCERS

[Stinky The Clown]

13. How do you leap to acceptance of the gun death?

There's a lot at work here. The United thing was a Line Crossed. A commentary on a society gone mad with the devaluation of our fellow humans.

Were the school shooting not in a school it would not be national news. It was a painfully common domestic shooting. What set it apart was the setting (a school) and the unintended death of a child. TO BE CLEAR - it was more consequential to actual people than was the United incident and yet another example of why we need to melt 'em down.

And how do you know how much outrage was stirred by each event on its own? Are you taking a true gauge of the national reaction? Counting headlines, Counting posts on DU?

The shooting was just one more in a series of tens of thousands of angry men shooting partners or coveted women.

The United incident was a morality play writ large and live. As a people, companies and company elite are valued more than ordinary people. It was also about militarized, guns ho, unrestrained legal thugs with guns who roam in sanctioned gangs to exert force over other humans deemed somehow "wrong". On this day, that is, indeed, the bigger story.

[GusBob]

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